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| View Larger Image | Radioactive Substances
by Marie Curie
| | List Price: | $7.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 953154 | | Studio: | Dover Publications | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 96 | | Publication Date: | August 05, 2002 | | Publisher: | Dover Publications |
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Here is the celebrated scientist's doctoral thesis, the prelude to her receipt of the 1903 Nobel Prize. Curie discusses establishing atomic character of radioactivity from compounds of uranium and thorium; extraction from pitchblende of polonium and radium; isolation of pure radium chloride; determination of atomic weight of radium; and more. |
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With Curie's own words, charts, and calculations 
Marie Curie's Radioactive Substances provides an intriguing description and first hand account of the lab research which led to her discovery of radium - and her eventual death. Curie's own words, charts, and calculations tells of her work with radium and the advance of a scientific wonder.
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